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2010-08-12 , 09:34
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Originally Posted by Bijiont View Post
But at least then the community can take action on very core systems rather than being hog tied with nothing so to speak.

I am all for Nokia fixing bugs however if they state "Sorry we aren't going to do it" then why not open it to the community and see what happens? What harm would it create?
General problem is that open sourcing isn't just about slapping a license on things. It's validating you own the thing, if it's not patent encumbered, trademark encumbered, etc. Checking for validity of the context it's put in. This process takes time and effort.

Fremantle was 43% open source. MeeGo on N900 is 99%, with 1% closed source (SGX, bt firmware, wlan firmware, BME).

Which is more difficult and waste of eachothers time:

* Making MeeGo more great by contributing more open code, apps, control panels, always at the edge of innovation.
* or spending time open sourcing everything from 43% to 100% without any existing organisation that can handle the bits when they're opened and a platform that's ancient by the time we've fixed all the problems we've wanted.

I know what battle I would prefer to take. The one where we actually accomplish something in the open.
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